Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.

We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.